A German spokesman had, in recent months, made clear anti-Serbian
remarks, highlighting the biased nature of the supposedly impartial
international force supposedly administering Kosovo with the support
of KFOR military units and police provided by donor nations [a Polish
police unit was in charge of the area of Metrovica when the incident
occurred]. UNMIK had, additionally, on several occasions, tried to
overturn international warrants and criminal proceedings against one
of the key Kosovo radicals, known war criminal Agim Ceku, who was now
working as the Commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), which
was, in fact, created out of the narco-terrorism organization, the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK).2
The October 15, 2003, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs report also
indicated that Cekus KPC was directly engaged in support of
Albanian-trained Islamist terrorists, noting:
During the first half of August 2003, 300 Albanian-trained guerillas
 including appr. 10 mujahedin (non-Balkan Muslims)  were
infiltrated across the Albanian border into Kosovo, where many have
subsequently been seen in the company (and homes) of members of the
so-called Kosovo Protection Corps which was created out of Kosovo
Albanian elements originally part of the KLA. In fact, the Kosovo
Protection Force seems almost synonymous with the Albanian National
Army (ANA), the new designation for the KLA. The guerillas were
trained in three camps inside the Albanian border at the towns of
Bajram Curi, Tropoja and Kuks, where the camps have been in operation
since 1997.

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George W. Bush, issued on January 12 and with worldwide
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By Dimitris Agrafiotis for Southeast European Times in Athens –
21/11/03

Organised crime in the Balkans has attracted the interest of the
American law enforcement community and the US Senate. The US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that crime from the Balkans,
Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union is expanding
and will continue to expand.

„In the last year or two, European nations have recognised that
Balkan organised crime is one of the greatest criminal threats that
they face,“ Assistant Director of the FBI Criminal Investigative
Division Grant D. Ashley said in an October statement before the
Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations………

ccording to Ashley, organised crime groups from Albania have expanded
their activitites in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and
the Scandinavian countries. In the last few years, he said, Albanian
organised crime has reached the United States, creating partnerships
with the Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese families to facilitate
specific crimes……….

By Dimitris Agrafiotis for Southeast European Times in Athens – 21/11/03

Organised crime in the Balkans has attracted the interest of the American law enforcement community and the US Senate. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that crime from the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union is expanding and will continue to expand.

„In the last year or two, European nations have recognised that Balkan organised crime is one of the greatest criminal threats that they face,“ Assistant Director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division Grant D. Ashley said in an October statement before the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

He added that European police organisations estimate that Balkan crime rings now control more than 70 per cent of the heroin market in some of the larger European nations, and are rapidly taking over human smuggling, prostitution and car theft rings across Europe.

According to Ashley, organised crime groups from Albania have expanded their activitites in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries. In the last few years, he said, Albanian organised crime has reached the United States, creating partnerships with the Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese families to facilitate specific crimes.

In Italy, meanwhile, Mafia groups have reportedly taken advantage of the country’s geographic proximity to Southeast Europe to align themselves with Balkan organised criminal groups engaged in arms and cigarette smuggling, trafficking in humans and smuggling of aliens.

In order to confront this growing problem, Ashley said, the FBI has established the Balkan Organised Crime (BOC) initiative, which is focused on criminal activity emanating from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Greece. The BOC is a high profile endeavour on the part of the FBI’s Organised Crime Section and the US Department of Justice’s Organised Crime and Racketeering Section, he noted.

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